Nicolas Williams writes: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:59:15PM -0500, Dave Miner wrote:
> > >I suspect this struggle will continue until a project comes along to > > >rationalize and replace/clean-up/integrate ndd and /etc/system settings > > >into a sysadmin-friendly framework that properly supports presistence > > >(but also temporary settings). > > > > > > > I'm skeptical such a project will occur anytime soon, at least on Sun's > > dime, because these are not in the class of tasks that most admins > > should have to be doing and so it's easy to find uses of our money which > > will give more demonstrable returns. I don't think the two solutions > > Darren suggested are the only ones possible for this case, but what do I > > know? ;-) > > I have no idea how likely such a project is, but sysadmins certainly > have had to set /etc/system, driver .conf and ndd settings, and they've > had to write rc files for it, and now SMF services. So I do think that > this state of affairs cries out for a better solution. Early SMF design called for kernel read access for the repository so that it could be used for things like driver settings. Actual SMF implementation ran into the reality of too much work and too few resources. If anyone was contemplating attacking the general problem without using SMF, I'd like to understand why. :) But, in the absense of folks/funding to do work, it's all academic. I'm hopeful that someday the SMF team will be able to move this work back onto our priority list, but it isn't in the documented future. liane -- Liane Praza, Solaris Kernel Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blogs.sun.com/lianep _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
